The Portland daily press., 1887-01-18
SUBURBAN NEWS.
CAPE ELIZABETH.

| al II I-l@1LABEIH.
The entertainment by Golden Cross Com
mandery that was to have been held last
evening is postponed to Friday evening next
The mystery about the twelve-year-old
boy whom Captain Blaisdell found and car.
rled home few evenings ago, has been
solved. His name is Thomas Hood. and hs
lives on st: Lawrence street, Portland. He
ran away from home that morning.
Inc dlphtheria scare has subsidized. M
new cases are reported and the old ones are
convalescing.
DEERING.
The second assembly of the Unity Club
series will be given this evening in Grams
Hall, Morrill's Corner '"
CUMBERLAND MILLS.
The Congregational Church, which has
been enlarged during the past year, will be
lighted by incandescent electric LAMPS the
electricity being furnished by the dynamos
at the Cumberland paper mills. This will
pc the ilrst instance in this State Of church
Delng lighted by electricity. The stained
glass windows, which are of unusual excel
renee IN quality and design, were furnished
Dy cyrus ii. Farley of Portland
sACCARAPPA.
meeting of the Westbrook Library
Association was held at the residence of
Judge Ray Saturday evening, The principal
business transaction was the election of
officers. The old board were reelected.
Mr.. Thomas Stack of Cumberland Mills
had hen which laid one dozen eggs and
then died. The eggs were given to another
hen, and eight Wyandotte chicks were
matched out last week. They are all lively
and doing we'll.
TbQrn frIl 1al
lers on board the train bound for Saccarapna
MONDAY morning. When it halted at Cum
Derland Mills station one of the number at
tempted to make his exit from the car Int
MS pack became wedged in the doorway
an nelu nm last: The train passed on to
BowERY BEACH
The greatest snow storm so far this win
ter, both for severity and duration, occurred
Friday and Saturday last. The wind blew
90 miles an hour great part of the time.
ana vessels anywhere off the New England
coast must have experienced hard lines.
The roads are badly drifted, and it will
take several days of work and travel over
them before they will be in tolerably mas
sable state
The sometime since advertised anti
quarian supper, to raise funds towards the
payment of the minister's claim, came off
at the Ocean House last Wednesday. Mr..
Dresser, the proprietor, generously donated
the use OF his house, furniture and crock
cry Although there were a large number
In attendance 1t is alleged that so MANY par-
took OF the antique nenW without paying the
twenty-five cents charge, that the scheme
was not the financial success it ought to
have been.
The writer has been furnished with n
quantity OF quail food by sportsmen and
others in the city interested in the beyy of
quail that have domiciled themselves in
this neighborhood. Saturday, after the
late severe snow storm had abated. some Of
the feed was spread in the field where the
bl rds had been seen number of times be-
fore In about an hour after dropping the
grain, seven quail were counted easerIv
picking it up. 1t is proposed by those gen
stock this section of the State with this
game bird, to liberate the next ones received
in this locality, not doubling that the new
birds and those already here will soon make
one another's acquaintance.
a snort time ago we made mention of the
loss by neighbor, Mr.. A. f. Hannaford, of
a large flock of ducks. After a lapse of
three weeks Mr.. Hannaford received notice
mat some two dozen of the flock were at
Stratton Island. He proceeded thither in
quest OF the stray birds but found them in
so Wild state that they would suffer no
one to approach them, and could only be
gained possession of by shooting. NJ.